David Mills, professor of biological sciences and director of the Center for Applied Teaching and Learning to Yield Scientific Thinking at Louisiana Tech University, joined several of his students this fall in presenting their latest research accomplishments at two international scientific conferences.

Kaitlin McNamara, an undergraduate biology major at Louisiana Tech, and Monica Cowdery, a National Science Foundation Research Experiences for Undergraduates student, who worked in Mills’ lab this past summer and is a biochemistry student at the University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., presented three posters based on their bionanotechnology research at the 2010 Biomedical Engineering Society meeting recently held in Austin, Texas.

Their presentations titled, “Ultrasonic Nebulization as a Tool for Creating Multilayered, Multi-component Anti-Infective Nanocoatings” and “Osteoblastic Response to Bioactive Nanocoatings,” were co-authored by Mills and Yuri Lvov, Louisiana Tech professor of chemistry, physics and nanosystems engineering.

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Editor’s note: This is the first article in a three-part series as part of the Lincoln Parish Sheriff’s Office Holiday Campaign. Today’s story looks at holiday decorating. Next Sunday’s article will focus on shopping safety, and an article on Dec. 19 will focus on protecting families from home invasions.

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As the holiday season gets in full swing, Lincoln Parish Sheriff Mike Stone urges residents to keep fire safety in mind when they do holiday decorating.

Thanks to the wellness program that Lincoln Parish School Board members approved in November 2012, school system employees are seeing better health results.

David Charpentier and Tami Rolen-Tharp, representatives from Blue Cross Blue Shield, which took over the school board’s health plan last year, were at the regular school board meeting earlier this month to tell board members about the positive impact the wellness plan has had.

At approximately 4 p.m. Friday, Ruston Fire Department-EMS was dispatched to the scene of a two motor vehicle accident at the intersection of Louisiana Highway 33 and Louisiana Highway 821-Frazier Road.

The 1996 white Honda Civic responsible for the accident was driven by 17-year-old Parish Jolly, of Ruston.

She said she was stopped at La. Hwy 821, waiting to head west through the intersection when she did not see the 2005 black Chrysler 300.

RFD EMS transported the driver of the Chrysler 300, 73-year-old Vivian Roberson, of Eros, for minor injuries sustained in the crash.